I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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Unknown
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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John Ruskin
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love...
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Kahlil Gibran
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid...
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Criss Jami
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)
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Jane Austen
More Quotes By George F. Will
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
Sex education in the modern manner has been well-described as plumbing for hedonists.
Talk about presidents "taking" the country hither and yon is part of the foam of presidential elections.
There may be arrogance — and the laziness of someone who is indefatigable when doing what he enjoys, but only when doing that.
People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.
